Michel Inguimberty, son of Joseph Inguimberty (France, 1896-1971) and Mr Jean-François Hubert, Marseille, south of France, 1996. Joseph Inguimberty had been teaching at the Fine Arts School of Hanoi for fifteen years when he started on this painting in 1940. He was teaching the decorative arts but also favoured teaching lacquer. It is under his aegis that the native masters of Vietnamese painting bloomed. While Le Pho, Vu Cao Dam, Mai Trung Thu and Le Thi Luu were closer to Victor Tardieu, To Ngoc Van and Nguyen Gia Tri developed a closer relationship with Joseph Inguimberty. Madly in love with Vietnam, Inguimberty was a demanding teacher as well as a keen observer who left behind a body of works that were almost ethnological in detailing the land and the people.